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Discover how a disciplined, factory-style approach reshaped large-scale software development. This nonfiction study examines System Development Corporation’s early attempt to turn software work into a repeatable, centralized process, blending management practices with new tools and procedures to improve quality and predictability.
The book details the rise of the software factory concept, its organizational design, and the key infrastructure that supported it. It also analyzes the challenges faced, including work flow, responsibilities across management layers, and the balance between centralized procedures and local autonomy. Through the SDC experience, you’ll see how a major contractor approached standardization, measurement, and lifecycle discipline in a real-world setting.
- Learn how a centralized workflow aimed to standardize requirements, design, coding, and testing
- See how policy and technology infrastructures interacted to guide software production
- Explore the factors behind both the partial success and the limits of the experiment
- Understand how these early efforts influenced later views on software engineering and factory models
Ideal for readers of software history, engineering management, and case studies in large-scale system development.
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Professors David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano are the authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time.
Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and is the longest-serving member of the Intel board of directors. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books and has written extensively for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.
Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of eleven books, including the classic bestseller Microsoft Secrets and Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World.
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